36 Quotes by Leos Carax

Video is freeing, but also lazier. You have to recreate the love of the moment.

When I was 16, I discovered this island called cinema and I thought: 'Oh, how wonderful; I'm ready.'

I care about cinema even though I haven't made many films.

I'm not a cineaste. I've made so few films. Sometimes it feels each one is the last one or the first one.

I'm not only my films, but I'm pretty much my films.

Cinema is a territory. It exists outside of movies. It's a place I live in. It's a way of seeing things, of experiencing life. But making films, that's supposed to be a profession.

My films start with images, a few images and a few feelings, and I try to edit them together to see the correspondence between these images and these feelings.

The film is therefore a form of science fiction, in which humans, beasts and machines are on the verge of extinction - 'sacred motors' linked together by a common fate and solidarity, slaves to an increasingly virtual world. A world from which visible machines, real experiences and actions are gradually disappearing.

I thank Henry James for the scene in the hotel room, that I stole from Portrait Of A Lady This particular scene is the most beautiful scene ever written.